Example sentences of "calls [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 2 | These stated : ‘ Everybody who calls himself or herself a Christian must now rally to the side of Christ and defend Him , not only with their rosaries and prayers but by protesting in a public and persistent manner against this film . ’ |
| 3 | A congressional committee has been inquiring into why Augusto Pinochet junior , who calls himself an international arms adviser , received cheques worth nearly $3m from the army , apparently for his share in a rifle factory , and whether the old general knew his son stood to benefit . |
| 4 | When Professor Hans Eysenck jumps up with his revised IQ results , 20 years on , still ‘ proving ’ that blacks are ‘ genetically inferior ’ , he calls himself courageous , a knight hunting for rational truths when all around him cling to myths ( the ‘ myth of equality ’ , in his words ) . |
| 5 | BILL CLINTON calls himself the Comeback Kid and has again lived up to the name . |
| 6 | French criminal ( who also calls himself Blandois and Lagnier ) who prides himself on always living and being treated like a gentleman . |
| 7 | ‘ Calls himself Mouse . |
| 8 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 9 | But the prospect must presumably appal anyone who calls himself a Conservative . |
| 10 | And he calls himself , rather disarmingly , a ‘ spic ’ . |
| 11 | Everybody calls himself an undertaker . |
| 12 | At this moment he calls himself Death : |
| 13 | He said the man who calls himself Sal Stallone is not a relative ‘ either close or distant , by marriage or blood ’ . |
| 14 | He managed to get away to the other side of the ring but Grant , who calls himself The Terminator , slashed away with both hands , forcing the stoppage . |
| 15 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 16 | Calls himself Theodore . |
| 17 | He calls himself a ‘ midwife ’ , and like a midwife , has only a temporary and external role to play in the process of birth . |
| 18 | Towards the end of October 1337 Henry Burghersh Bishop of Lincoln arrived in Paris with a letter from Edward III addressed to ‘ Philip of Valois who calls himself king of France ’ . |
| 19 | The plan meets the garrulous approval of the exiled monarch Wladislas , who calls himself ‘ a middle-class professional man ’ and who is relieved to escape from the rivalry of priests and nobles and the expense of entertaining courtiers of extravagant tastes who ‘ love dressing up in uniforms , putting on swords and attending state balls ’ and whose appetites are such that ‘ a bullock roasted whole and a couple of pigs go no distance at a supper table in Lystria ’ . |
| 20 | He suffers a first conflict of loyalties when he helps the strange man who calls himself Faraway Moses to escape from the Riders and learns that a confederacy is working in secret to reform a government that favours rich against poor , ‘ not with rifle and sword ’ , as the conspirator tells Dick , but : |
| 21 | ‘ That interloper who was in the car , calls himself the Doctor apparently — he 's on his way to the cemetery . |
| 22 | Calls himself the prince of bandits . ’ |
| 23 | Erm also if you look at entertainment , like James Saville calls himself Jimmy Saville , Terence Wogan is Terry Wogan , so but then you look at people like Charlie Chaplin , when he was doing his comedian role he was c he called himself Charlie Chaplin , and when he 's directing films he called himself Charles Chaplin , so maybe it 's all like a bit of a serious thing . |
| 24 | Lenihan was accused of dishonesty as to whether he had made any such calls himself . |
| 25 | Innocent had misjudged the character of Otto , as he later admitted in a letter to Philip Augustus : " If only , dearest son , I had known the character of Otto who now calls himself Emperor , as well as you … |
| 26 | The Prat Who calls Himself The Hit Man |
| 27 | The prat that calls himself the Hitman is how Stock Aitken Waterman 's Pete Waterman describes himself . |
| 28 | Calls himself Jack something or other . |
| 29 | It could not have been written if the " eagles " who are our modern gurus had not shown the path from altitude ; Lecercle calls himself , by contrast , a " centipede " grubbing about among tiny linguistic details , but he is a sensible and humorous centipede where some of the great eagles — the thinkers who have brought about the famous Copernican Revolution of Structuralism and Since — have been impenetrable or extremist . |
| 30 | They were considered , both of them considered , both of them considered erm but it is my recollection that erm been the inference that Mr had made the telephone calls himself . |